The ba dum tss sting comes from vaudeville and early stand-up comedy, where pit drummers punctuated jokes with a snare hit and cymbal crash, a technique drummers call a rimshot. It became a universal shorthand for a corny punchline through decades of comedy clubs, sitcoms and cartoons. Online, the sting turned into a meme in its own right, and deliberately cheap or sloppy versions like this one are used to roast the joke itself, signaling to the audience that the gag was meant to flop.
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A rough, lo-fi ba dum tss rimshot drum sting, the classic punchline sound after a bad joke. Creators drop it on memes, fails and bad dad jokes.
This is the famous ba dum tss rimshot, the two-hit drum sting comedians use to punctuate a joke, but played in a deliberately rough and scrappy way. You hear a loose snare crack followed by a wobbly, slightly off cymbal crash, like a drummer in a basement band rushing the punchline. It lands as a joke about the joke itself, telling the viewer the gag was bad on purpose. The scuffed timing and cheap tone make it funnier than a clean studio version, because the imperfection is the punchline.
